Gambrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State (1983), 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State (1985)
40 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hopps v. People · The People v. . McCann · Cunningham v. State · State v. Bartlett · Waycaster v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think the true rule is this: Every man is presumed to be sane, and, in the absence of testimony engendering a reasonable doubt of sanity, no evidence on the subject need be offered; but whenever the question of sanity is raised and put in issue by such facts, proven on either side, as engender such doubt, it devolves upon the State to remove it, and to establish the sanity of the prisoner to the satisfaction of the jury, beyond all reasonable doubt arising out of all the evidence in the case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court instructs the jury that if you find that the State has proved beyond a reasonable doubt all the essential elements of robbery, then you must find the defendant guilty of robbery, unless the State has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was sane at the time of the commission of the offense you find to have been committed. In order to prove the defendant sane at the time of the commission of alleged robbery, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that at the time of the commission of alleged robbery the defendant had the mental capacity to realize and appreciate the nature and quality of his act and to distinguish between right and wrong with reference to the act he committed. If after considering all of the evidence in this case you find the State has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was sane at the time of the commission of alleged robbery, then your verdict must be not guilty by reason of insanity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Page v. State“The Court instructs the Jury for the State that in the event you should find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity and certify that he is dangerous, to the community, then it would be the duty of the Court to commit him to the asylum until such time as he regained his sanity at which time he would go free. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.